A/N: Just going to re-note that this is based off an RP that my 'little brother' (no relation lol) and I did back in 2007. Credit definitely goes to her for being my amazing RP partner. I never could have done this alone. Thank you Little Brother.

Something About You

Part four

Al sat up and shook his head, looking around him at the familiar sight of Risembool. Still shocked, he turned and tried to shake his somewhat unconscious brother awake. Ed rubbed his eyes and sat up as well.

"What, Al?" The older alchemist mumbled, unsure of where he was for the moment.

His brother bounced excitedly next to him. "Look, look!"

"Huh? ..." The blonde looked around. "We're ... actually home? I mean ... we did it. We're home!" He almost tackled Al to the ground with a hug.

The younger alchemist was unable to even form words, and just hugged his brother back, bursting with pride at their accomplishment. Soon though, Ed knew he had to calm himself down before he did anything too irrational; the feeling of wanting to kiss Al was creeping up on him again and he didn't want to make any mistakes. He pulled away gently from his brother.

Al hid his disappointment at the blonde pulling away from him but knew that it was a good thing Ed did .. he didn't even want to think of what stupid thing he might have done.

The older alchemist rubbed his eyes again, sighing softly to himself before speaking. " ... do you think Winry's still here somewhere?"

"Probably still at her home..." Al looked around him and realized Winry's home was nearby.

"Do you think we should go surprise her?"

Al smiled. "Why would we not? We ARE the Elric brothers."

Ed smirked back as he got up, extending a hand to Al to help him up as well. "Let's go."

The younger alchemist accepted the hand and began dragging his brother down to Winry's house by his hand at a jog.

The blonde tried not to blush and focused on seeing Winry instead. He couldn't help grinning like crazy knowing how shocked she was going to be as they got to the door.

Al took a deep breath to prepare himself. He hadn't seen Winry since before he got his memories back. He let out the breath and knocked on her door.

"Whoossiit?" Winry called in a sleepy voice from within the house.

"Open the door!" Ed demanded, trying to disguise his voice.

Winry assumed it was one of her customers that she forgot about and got up to answer the door.

"Sorry, Sir. Remind me of your commission and I'll-" She called out as she walked towards the door. She opened it and stared at the pair on her doorstep, blinking a few times.

"Uh, Winry?" Al asked, concerned.

"EEEEEEEEEE!" Winry exploded with joy and threw herself onto Ed and Al.

Ed fell backwards and hugged the automail mechanic back, laughing. "Happy to see us?"

"Ohmygod! I never thought I would see you two again I am so happy how did you get back here oh my god my brothers are back yaaaaay!" Winry started babbling all her thoughts in a jumble, not really realizing what was coming out of her mouth.

"Umm ... Winry, are you speaking English?"

Al giggled and hugged Winry tighter even though it was hard since she was squishing him in her bear hug.

Ed's arms flailed a bit as he struggled. "I think there's a rock in my back ... can we get up now?"

Winry cleared her throat and finally stood up. "Oh yeah...sure!" She blushed a little, embarrassed a bit by her outburst.

The blonde stood up and rubbed his back, giving his childhood friend his own small hug. "It's good to see you again, though."

She latched herself onto Ed, since Al was still attempting to stand. "I missed you guys so much."

"We missed you too. Right, Al?" He looked back at his brother.

Al got up and smiled, ruffling Winry's hair. "You bet!"

Winry finally stepped back and looked at the two of them before squealing a bit to herself again. "You wanna come in?"

"That would be nice." Ed grinned again. She walked inside and beckoned for them to follow her, taking some half-done automail off the kitchen table on her way in.

The younger alchemist smiled after entering and closing the door behind him and his brother. "Same old Winry, I see."

Ed snickered in reply to the comment. "Like she'd ever change."

"Sit wherever you can find a spot, I want to hear EVERYTHING." She said enthusiastically.

"Winry, it's been two years. That's a lot to listen to." Al frowned slightly.

"So?"

Ed looked at his brother. "Well, it's not like we did anything that amazing in Germany."

Al sat down, trying to think, and tapped his teeth. "Ja."

"Huh?" The mechanic asked in confusion.

The strawberry blonde realized he'd spoken German without realizing it. "Oops."

His brother laughed and sat down. "It's German. That's going to be hard habit to break out of."

"No kidding...Al laughed. "We've been surrounded by it for so long."

"I'd say learning a whole other language is something interesting to have done in Germany." Winry commented.

"Well, we lived there for so long we had to pick it up. But I guess that is somewhat interesting."

"Though the similarities are apparent so it wasn't too difficult, I guess..." Al replied.

Ed looked around the room again and sort of shivered. "I still can't believe we're back here ... "

"I can't believe you're here either!" She suddenly realized they were just sitting at a table, and she wasn't being a very good host. "Oh! Um...you two want anything?"

"Well, I don't want to be a bother..." Al shrugged.

The older alchemist scratched the back of his neck with his hand. "I don't want to be a bother either, Winry, but I could really use a drink."

"I don't have much but I think I can find something you like!"

"Are you going to give him milk?" Al teased, with a momentarily lapse of evil. Winry laughed as she headed into her kitchen.

Ed's eyes narrowed. "That's not funny, Al."

The younger alchemist sunk down into the chair and spoke in a small voice. "She thought it was funny..."

The blonde frowned, leaning across the table towards Al and talking softly once he sees his brother's expression. "I'm not mad."

Al smiled closed-eyed at his brother, truly genuine and looking sweet as ever. "Alright."

Winry returned with a glass of water. "It was either this or some form of cheap alcohol."

"That works. I don't think the best thing for me to do the first day I'm home is get drunk. Thanks, Winry."

"Any time. Which I can say with reassurance now...right?"

"Well I'm not planning on going back to Germany anytime soon ... things were getting pretty bad there." Ed sighed and sipped his water.

The strawberry blonde shuddered at a few of the memories. "Things were just getting too dangerous. And too close...I would've stayed if I could have helped but I don't think we could've."

"I don't think we could have either ..." Ed looked out the window, getting quickly lost in thought. "Hey Al ... I just thought of something." Winry looked at Ed curiously.

"Yes, Brother?"

Ed looked at Al blankly. "We still don't have a house here."

"Huh? Oh yeah..."

The older alchemist laughed softly. "Heh, I didn't think of that until now."

Al bit his thumbnail, smiling. "Perhaps we should get on that. Find a home in Risembool again."

"I think we should too. We're here for good now." Ed agreed.

Winry giggled happily and almost fell out of her chair. The whole day still felt unreal to her. She was still waiting to wake up. Al simply couldn't help the grin that broke out on his entire face at his brother's words.

A/N: The story is going to jump ahead in the next chapter, I'll make sure to put an author's note in to make it more understandable but we actually started to RP before either of us had seen the entire series, so we didn't write this part, the beginning until we had both gotten through FMA and the movie. Sorry. Heh. Also IDK if everyone agrees with me about Al being strawberry blonde but his hair is a nice shade and it's cute to describe it that way. c8 Thanks for the reviews, alerts and for reading!